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Infrastructure EngineerEvri

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The Genie team is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of core infrastructuresystems. Together, these systems:
1. Identify distinct newsworthy entities (people, places, and things) and their associated properties
2. Locate such entities in articles as they are published
3. Filter articles at ingestion time into channels about specific topics
4. Create a search index for surfacing articles based on subject:verb:object triples
5. Keep track of popularity trends (how often a particular person, place or thing is mentioned inthe news over time)
6. Provide APIs for internal and 3rd party access

On this team, you will work in diverse areas such as distributed search systems, real-time computing,deep parsing, natural language processing, machine learning, trend analysis and topic detection.

We are hard at work on a news filter which categorizes each article into some number of the 2.5 milliontopics we recognize. Our goal is to lower the latency between an article?s publication and when we canrecommend it to our users while also lowering query latency for our clients. We are looking to add anengineer to help with this effort, as well as to continue to expand and support the systems that arealready in production.

Other potential tasks include:

building a service to suggest topics to a user given a set of liked items from Facebook
implementing A/B tests to identify areas to improve in our article recommendations
identifying and rectifying redundant or overly complex code and systems in an effort to simplifyand harden our codebase
To be successful in this role, you should have: